INMA – 19/09/2019
L. Carol Christopher
Google’s announcement last week that it would begin prioritising original news content in its searches is getting positive reaction from news executives, even as media insiders close to the publisher-platform relationship say there are nuances beyond this move. Richard Gingras, vice president/news for Google, announced in a blog post that the company would improve the guidelines it uses to gauge how well its algorithms are working toward prioritising original news content in searches.